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One of the illusions in the writer's repertoire as a professional magician was known as "the blue room. " In this illusion a person would come on the stage and, remaining within full view of the audience, would appear gradually to change into a distorted image of himself.

The enjoyment of victory, whether by nations or individuals, generally implies that others are encountering defeat, with all that word suggests of disappointment or humiliation. However, a recognition of the higher sense of the word victory and of its spiritual significance can go far toward tempering the undue exultation often associated with material success, while at the same time bringing solace and encouragement to those who may suffer the disillusionment of failure or defeat.

It is recorded in Mark's Gospel that one of the scribes heard Jesus reasoning with the Sadducees. The scribe perceived that he answered their questions wisely.

There is probably no element of the so-called carnal mind more inimical to human happiness and health than the temptation to become incensed and angry. Indictment of this phase of mortal mind may be found in the Bible, where it is stated ( Prov.

How frequently one carelessly accepts the offhand remark, "That's just like a woman," or, "Men are like that. " Christian Science challenges such comments, which usually draw attention to unlovely characteristics, for it teaches that all undesirable traits are inversions of good and as such cannot be attached to spiritual man, who, we are told in the Bible, is God's offspring ( Gen.

In talking with his disciples on one occasion Christ Jesus felt constrained to call attention to the type of gifts which he observed being cast into the temple treasury. He had been warning them against the conduct of the scribes—their desire to walk in long robes, to love greetings in the market place, to hold the highest seats in the synagogues, to occupy the chief rooms at feasts, and, for a show, to make long prayers.

" The glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass thereby. " In exquisite imagery Isaiah (33:21) thus typifies the bounty and freedom, the effortlessness, and the ever-present grace and loveliness of real being.

The fifth commandment states, "Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee" ( Ex. 20:12 ).

Watchfulness and alertness have always been accepted as most desirable qualities, provided they are accompanied by wise and prompt action whenever the need arises. A sixteen-year-old daughter of a lighthouse keeper in Australia was recently presented with a plaque, not only in recognition of her own fortitude under adverse circumstances, but also as a mark of grateful acknowledgment of the work done by lighthouse keepers generally in their devotion to duty, their watchfulness, and their love of their fellow men in helping to keep the sea lanes safe.

Although the word Soul is not directly used in the Bible as a synonym for God, it was revealed to Mary Baker Eddy through her search of the Scriptures that in its highest significance Soul is God, Spirit. And she so uses it in her revelation of the Science of being.